prince valiant

April 18th, 2010

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Holy crap, dudes. I asked S. to meet me at BART Friday night, and he shows up with a baby blue 1964 Plymouth Valiant he just bought. While I was in the city. For like 5 hours. SNEAKY.

(I went to the Offbeat Bride reading at Booksmith – wow, that was weird but awesome. I would never have pegged myself as someone who’d go to a BRIDAL BOOK READING,  but the book is cute and funny, as is the author! Meg from A Practical Wedding arranged a drinking meet-up afterward, I brought a slew of cupcakes courtesy of Miette, and it was really lovely to meet new people who understand the bridal crazy. Especially Meg! So adorable, jeez! & don’t you all sass me about cupcakes being passé, they’re tiny cakes you don’t need a fork to eat. They taste like cake. They’re actually even MADE of cake. I like cake.)

So yeah, car. I’ve never really had a car!! I drove my aunt’s old Jetta for 2 months before it died in 2006, but I’m 34 and have never REALLY had a car. (I moved to Philadelphia at 17 and SF at 20, so I never needed one.) Crazy!! Please don’t break, little car!

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Whoa, it is SO NICE to have a car. Saturday was a day of MAGIC. First, we drove to meet Kate at Crixa to get snacktreats for the tea party on Sunday & to drink pots of chai and tiny almond cakes. Then, we got to just GO WHEREVER WE WANTED. How wild is that? SO WILD. We went to Tail of the Yak! We went thrifting to far away places! We found many treasures! We got lunch at the Summer Kitchen! (Does the Bay Area have the best food or what? No wonder I’m so roundy!)

Ok, I’m a little tipsy on wine and chocolate (Rococo Bee Bar in Rose) right now (Saturday evening, when I started this) so mind the caps. Maybe I shouldn’t drunk-blog.

IMG_0227These are all iPhone photos, I didn’t have a camera with me. Scary army of plastic babies. Who are they? What do they want? Why are there holes in the tops of their heads?

IMG_0229Cupcakes at Summer Kitchen. I actually profoundly dislike this method of icing application. F yr I. But I wish I tried those perplexing lemon meringue dealies.

IMG_2549Japanese tape from Tail of the Yak.

IMG_2573New necklace from Green & Gorgeous.

IMG_2622Treasures!

So I quickly made a 1964 mix to drive around with – THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Also important, the car needs a name: Gretel? Petunia? Parker? Petula? Edith?

The First Cut Is The Deepest ~ P.P Arnold
Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows ~ Leslie Gore
When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes ~ The Supremes
Rescue Me ~ Fontella Bass
Sugar Town ~ Nancy Sinatra
Popsicles and Icicles ~ The Murmaids
Downtown ~ Petula Clark
I Got You Babe ~ Spell (cover)
Afternoon Tea ~ The Kinks
Penny Lane ~ Beatles
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday ~ Rolling Stones
She’s Not There ~ Zombies
tambourine man (Vocals only) ~ Byrds
Season of the witch ~ Donovan
Eve Of Destruction ~ The Byrds
Times They Are A Changing ~ Bob Dylan
House of the Rising Sun ~ Animals
What’s Going On ~ Marvin Gaye
Like a Rolling Stone ~ Bob Dylan
I Found A Reason ~ The Velvet Underground
Sick Bed Blues ~ Skip James

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